OSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is due to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, in defiance of a decade-long travel ban imposed by authorities in her home country and after spending more than a year in hiding. Read full story

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Russia has sent a planeload of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka after the island nation was struck by Cyclone Ditwah in late November, Russia's RIA news agency reported early on Wednesday, citing Shobini Gunasekera, Colombo's ambassador to Moscow. Read full story

Dec 9 (Reuters) - A shooting at Kentucky State University on Tuesday left one person dead and another in critical condition, according to police, who said the suspected assailant was taken into custody. Read full story

PRAGUE, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Czech President Petr Pavel appointed billionaire leader of the populist ANO party Andrej Babis as the new prime minister on Tuesday in a ceremony shown live on television. Read full story

TOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris was released from custody in Japan on Monday after his arrest last month on suspicion of attempting to smuggle drugs into the country, a police spokesperson said. Read full story

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - South Korea's military said it had scrambled fighter jets when Chinese and Russian military planes entered and left its air defence zone on Tuesday. Read full story

STOCKHOLM, Dec 9 (Reuters) - In a bustling kitchen at Stockholm's city hall, chefs have gathered to prepare an intricate dinner with a secret menu - and a family twist - for the scientists and royalty converging at the Nobel Prize banquet in Sweden this week. Read full story

KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Oleksiy Melnychenko, chief barista and manager of a cafe in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, held out as long as he could, serving doses of caffeine and normality to residents struggling amid Russian artillery and air attacks. Read full story

COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could soar to $7 billion. Read full story

VILNIUS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Lithuania on Tuesday declared a state of emergency due to threats to public safety from smuggled balloons originating in Belarus, the government said. Read full story

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, said on Tuesday that Moscow's forces were advancing along the entire front line in Ukraine and were targeting surrounded Ukrainian troops in the town of Myrnohrad. Read full story

PARIS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - France's social security budget faced a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could trigger a fresh political crisis and leave a 30-billion-euro ($35 billion) hole in funding for healthcare, pensions and welfare. Read full story

SIPIROK, Indonesia Dec 9 (Reuters) - Before the deadly landslides and floods hit Indonesia about two weeks ago, Amran Siagian, 39, frequently met Tapanuli orangutans on a hill in the region of Sipirok, North Sumatra province. Read full story

Dec 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if it doesn't immediately provide additional water to help U.S. farmers, accusing the country of violating a treaty that outlines water sharing between the neighbors. Read full story

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to Russia's Vladimir Putin and sympathies to the embassy in the country regarding the death of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to North Korea, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. Read full story

HAVANA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Cuba denied it had reached out to the United States about what the region would look like without President Nicolas Maduro leading Venezuela, calling the media report "absurd and false." Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices fell on Monday. Read full story

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Moscow had received no word on the outcome of talks in Florida on a settlement in Ukraine between U.S. and Ukrainian officials. Read full story

PARIS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - French socialist Party's leader Olivier Faure said on Monday his party will vote the social security budget's bill in parliament. Read full story

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai's desperate quest. She types her missing husband's name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a 13-year-old question. In vain. Read full story

Dec 8 (Reuters) - At least seven people were injured when Russian drones struck an apartment block in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Monday. Read full story

JAKARTA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Sumatra island will require 51.82 trillion rupiah ($3.11 billion) in reconstruction and recovery funds following a series of deadly floods, senior government officials said. Read full story

BANGKOK, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Thailand has launched air strikes along its disputed border with Cambodia, its military said, after both countries accused each other of breaching a ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Read full story

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Thailand said it launched airstrikes into Cambodia on Monday as fighting broke out in multiple areas along their disputed border, after both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Read full story

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Syrians marked the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec 7 - U.S. President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards program, mixing politics with a celebration of stars from music and film. Read full story

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of bushland north of Sydney, authorities said on Monday. Read full story

BANGKOK, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Thailand has launched air strikes along its disputed border with Cambodia, the Thai military said on Monday, after both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire agreement brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Read full story

GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - More than 3 million Syrians have returned home since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's rule a year ago but a decline in global funding could deter others, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. Read full story

KYIV, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Talks with U.S. representatives on a peace plan for Ukraine have been constructive but not easy, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday ahead of his planned consultations with European leaders in coming days. Read full story

TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - In Honduras, impatience is growing as Honduran electoral officials have failed to provide an update on the results of the November 30 national elections for nearly 48 hours, with the presidential race still far too close to call. Read full story

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, said on Sunday he may not run for president in next year's general election. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota, saying the state is home to a large illegal Somali community despite local officials' comments that the vast majority of Somalis in the U.S. are American citizens. Read full story

ROME, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke by phone on Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ahead of his planned visits to London, Brussels and Rome for talks on the peace process, her office said. Read full story

SAN ANTONIO DE FLORES, Honduras, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Residents in a rural Honduran town cast their ballots on Sunday in a delayed vote that could help decide the closest presidential contest in the nation's history and whether U.S. President Donald Trump's preferred candidate can hold onto his razor-thin lead. Read full story

LAGOS, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has sought more help from France to fight widespread violence in the north of the country, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday, weeks after the United States threatened to intervene to protect Nigeria's Christians. Read full story

KAMPALA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Uganda's opposition candidate Bobi Wine said he was beaten alongside his aides and supporters by security forces while campaigning in the country's north, in an escalation of violence ahead of the country's presidential election on January 15. Read full story

DUBAI, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Fifty-five Iranians deported from the United States will return to their home country in the coming days, Iran's foreign ministry said on Sunday, in the second such deportation under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Read full story

Dec 7 (Reuters) - Russian forces launched an overnight combined air strike on infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, causing power and water outages, its mayor Vitalii Maletskyi said on Sunday. Read full story

SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Australia on Sunday activated disaster relief for residents impacted by wildfires that have burnt properties, infrastructure and thousands of hectares of bushland in the country's most populous state. Read full story